Shoe by Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins

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  1. Yukoner

    Yukoner said, about 1 month ago

    … and the rest of the car ought to be.

  2. Yukoner

    Yukoner said, about 1 month ago

    Is that a Deadsota he’s driving?

  3. Johanan Rakkav

    Johanan RakkavGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    You DO know you can go back and edit your posts, don’t you? :))

    I know how the Perfessor feels. Eventually I had to shoot my old Chrysler and put it out of my misery.

  4. Gweedo Murray

    Gweedo Murray said, about 1 month ago

    I think it’s a play on “DeSoto”. Good one Yuke.

  5. Ronshua

    RonshuaGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    That’s one way . 4 quick budget killing words .

  6. jrbj

    jrbj said, about 1 month ago

    A typical auto repairman. Come up with the worst possible diagnosis, use a lot of unnecessary, but expensive, parts and then charge a totally insane price for it all. Almost the same as calling a plumber.

  7. SchmoozeMinkey

    SchmoozeMinkey said, about 1 month ago

    In this case, calling a plumber might be appropriate.

  8. FishStix

    FishStix said, about 1 month ago

    In this case, calling an auto museum might be appropriate.

  9. Fer Lefer

    Fer Lefer said, about 1 month ago

    In this case, calling a junk-man might be preposterous

    ( ^ o ^ )

    (Those nasty racoons… I wouldn’t let Broom Hilda take the car again, Perfessor…)

  10. Richard

    Richard said, about 1 month ago

    It could be a Belchfire8 from another strip.

  11. SQUIDBREAKER

    SQUIDBREAKER said, about 1 month ago

    Apparently the under-side of hood was the target all along.

    A.

  12. whmIII

    whmIII said, about 1 month ago

    Scrap it…

  13. EarlWash

    EarlWash said, about 1 month ago

    D.O.A.

  14. BC13

    BC13Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    If he tried to scrap it, the scrap dealer might charge him to haul it away. I still say go for the half a Yowza.

  15. OldHipster

    OldHipster said, about 1 month ago

    Whether you buy a new car or fix the old one, it’s a whole lot of “Yowsa’s” either way.

    Ya know?

  16. Susan001

    Susan001 said, about 1 month ago

    What would the gunman be charged with–Grand Murder: Auto???

  17. AKHenderson

    AKHenderson said, about 1 month ago

    Did he drive by a grassy knoll?

  18. crunkbot

    crunkbot said, about 1 month ago

    The shooter left pretty quickly… he had to get to a “tea-party.”

  19. BigChiefDesoto

    BigChiefDesoto said, about 1 month ago

    Don’t you believe it! Those ‘59 cast iron Torqueflites are rugged as a team of mules! The one in my 1960 Chrysler New Yorker comes out of second gear at full throttle at 95 miles per hour! I have NO idea how fast it will go but it goes by 100 like it didn’t even know it was there!!

  20. BigChiefDesoto

    BigChiefDesoto said, about 1 month ago

    No the thing you see on the under side of the hood is sound absorbent padding. It’s still there in mine too. As Tom McCahill ( who used to write the car tests for Mechanix Illustrated magazine – that cost 25 cents back in those days) said, at 120 miles per hour it’s as quiet as a Rolls Royce! There are springs to hold up the hood too, you don’t need a prop like they have in the new cheap quality cars! They built QUALITY cars back in those days. You just have to like fins to keep them for fifty years, and I do!

  21. Ushindi

    UshindiGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    BigChiefDesoto: Right on! Most of those old DeSotos and Chryslers had those great Chrysler “Hemi” engines (of course, gas wasn’t much of a problem then), the best engines ever produced, IMHO. One of my brothers used to have an old ‘57 DeSoto, with the pushbutton transmission control on the dash - fantastic car.

  22. BigChiefDesoto

    BigChiefDesoto said, about 1 month ago

    Hi Ushindi: The 1958 Chrysler 300D had a 392 cubic inch Hemi. At Bonneville it ran 156.387 miles per hour. That’s a two and a half ton car that will carry six full size adults and also carry an eight foot Christmas tree in the trunk with the trunk lid closed, so it wouldn’t even damage the tree while bringing it home at 150 miles per hour! The New Jersey turnpike police used to use them for unmarked patrol cars because a Chrysler 300 was a better police car than most police cars were – and there wasn’t very much else that could ever outrun it. Show me any standard production car that ANYBODY makes nowadays that will do this! By the way, as far as reliability and service cost goes, except for tires and brake shoes, I haven’t put a hundred dollars worth of parts in mine in the last thirty years.

  23. bpshand

    bpshand said, about 1 month ago

    Tough old car but not quite bullet proof.

  24. dkram

    dkram said, about 1 month ago

    Well, if he sold the old Desoto as an antique, he could get a good used car.

  25. artybee

    artybee said, about 1 month ago

    I can’t remember which comic it is from, but there used to be a car called the Belchfire Hotfoot.

  26. EarlWash

    EarlWash said, about 1 month ago

    You guys take me back. I bought a ‘56 Chrysler Windsor in 58 for $1800. Once I put a new set of Firestone Butyl rubber tires on it in ‘62, doing 80 was like sitting in your living room chair and not covering any ground.

    I got whacked from the left side at an insersection once that resulted in very little damage. The other full size car didn’t fair nearly so well. Wish I still had that boat. Nice.

  27. cholldekkgher stenstenstaffgher

    cholldekkgher stenst... said, about 1 month ago

    Was it Captain Kirk who once said, “Stand by to receive our transmission.”?
    Hope it’ll last as long as the Desoto’s original one.